Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Kent Watsen wrote: > Eric Schrock wrote: >> For x86 systems, you can use ipmitool to manipulate the led state >> (ipmitool sunoem led ...). On older galaxy systems, you can only set the >> fail LED ('io.hdd0.led'), as the ok2rm LED is not physically connected >> to anything. On newer systems, yo

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-16 Thread Kent Watsen
Paul Jochum wrote: >What the lsiutil does for me is clear the persistent mapping for > all of the drives on a card. Since James confirms that I'm doomed to ad hoc methods tracking device-ids to bays, I'm interested in knowing if somehow your ability to clear the persistent mapping for

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi, On Dec 14, 2007 7:50 PM, Louwtjie Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I would have said ... to be expected, since the 280 came with a > 100Mbit interface. So a 9-12 MB/s peak would be acceptable. You did > mention a "gigabit switch"... did you install a gigabit HBA ? If > that's the case

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi, sorry for the lengthy post ... On Dec 15, 2007 1:56 PM, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Sequential writing problem with process throttling - there's an open > bug for it for quite a while. Try to lower txg_time to 1s - should > help a little bit. Since setting txg_time to

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi, On Dec 14, 2007 8:24 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Penczek wrote: > > > > The performance is slightly disappointing. Does anyone have > > a similar setup and can anyone share some figures? > > Any pointers to possible improvements are greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Us

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-16 Thread Paul Jochum
Hi Kent: So, in using the lsiutil utility, what do I find, but the following option: (this was under the hidden option 15) 12. Change (enable/disable) persistence I have not had a chance to try it, but it says the default is Enabled. Let me know if you try it. Paul Kent Watsen wrot

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread Louwtjie Burger
> r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device > 0.0 48.00.0 3424.6 0.0 35.00.0 728.9 0 100 c2t8d0 > 0.0 60.00.0 4280.8 0.0 35.00.0 583.1 0 100 c2t9d0 > 0.0 55.00.0 3938.2 0.0 35.00.0 636.1 0 100 c2t10d0 > 0.0 56.0

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread James C. McPherson
hi Frank, there is an interesting pattern here (at least, to my untrained eyes) - your %b starts off quite low: Frank Penczek wrote: > --- > dd'ing to NFS mount: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://tmp> dd if=./file.tmp of=/home/fpz/file.tmp > 20+0 records in > 20+0 records out > 10240 bytes

Re: [zfs-discuss] /usr/bin and /usr/xpg4/bin differences

2007-12-16 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Dec 16, 2007 1:16 AM, Sasidhar Kasturi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes .. but have a look at the bug i am working on .. > Bug id:6493125 > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6493125 > > Thank you, > Sasidhar. I'm not sure what question you are asking... 1) Why are there two var